Mental health

I knew what I was doing to myself.

Why was I still triggered to do it regardless? And I can't underscore enough the importance of getting mental health support if you feel like you're in the deep woods of this.

And actually, I'm going to link it for you guys.

I recently shared that part of my story on a really good friend's podcast, Emily Romero.

She's actually been a guest on this podcast three or four times.

She has a wonderful podcast called The Self-Trust Podcast.

And she invited me on there to really share that part of my journey of that mental health journey of overcoming this 20 plus year pattern of under eating and how therapy and eventually psychedelics helped me overcome this.

So yes, I did the supplements.

So let me ask three questions to close.

How do you manage your mental health within the job?

Yeah, it's a good question.

I think my trick is, first of all, I won't do anything related to journalism.

after eight hours like it's a very hard rule for myself and second when i feel something intense or i'm rushing the deadline or i'm sprinting right i always give myself like at least five minutes to do a meditation session so that i can feel calm and i can I need to take care of my emotions first, and then I can go into a logic state so that I can lay out my work in the very most efficient way.

So that's two tricks I do for my mental health.

That's great.

How has being a journalist impacted

Again, open about it.

Mental health.

Yeah.

It's.

And because of the nurturing aspects of their father, they're just able to be more well-rounded.

And they have less depression and anxiety, just mental health issues.

Of course, it's not across the board, but I'm talking about fathers who care.

Fathers who are there.

No, because that's going to seem like I got some...

Mental health issues.

Join the team.

No, but I do appreciate everyone that came out and supported 360 Connect and Project 360 and the 419 Grind for our open house.

You already know.

Let me ask you a question.

There's a big push on mental health.

What role do you see the church playing in mental health?

Anyway, Walsh has pled not guilty, and those are allegations that got approved in court, obviously.

Anyway, her defense attorneys have focused heavily on Walsh's mental health.

Attorney Andrea Lyon says Walsh was experiencing psychosis.

at the time of Barrett's death and has been seeking records to determine what psychiatric treatment and medications Walsh was receiving while in custody.

Now, Walsh appeared briefly in Will County Court this morning for what ultimately became a discovery related hearing.

Both sides are continuing to collect and review records, including information from medical and behavioral health facilities and the Will County Jail.

Her attorneys said after court that they are continuing to investigate her mental health history and the circumstances surrounding what they described as psychosis.

Walsh remains in custody and her next pretrial court date is now scheduled for November 23rd.

That was from AJ.

So I think Chevy, because mental health is so important to us, maybe just tell the folks in the break what you're doing for that space in the Calgary area.

I think that's very important.

Yeah, so you mentioned I have a podcast with Sheldon DePaschuk, former Saskatchewan Rough Rider and Calgary Stampeder teammate of mine.

We do the ride with Chevy and Nasty.

And as part of some of the shows that we do, we have a small group of men that we support.

We've done a few live events where we did a couple of – mental health movie nights out in cochrane where we had basically hosted a movie night but before the movie would start we fed guys we get keynote speakers like we've had brett gardner talk we've had keon raymond former teammate of mine talk a bunch of great people come and talk to the men just talking about resiliency mental health reaching out and we support a lot of great charities like our one of our sponsors performance freight management our friend daryl mcavina he's also huge in the rodeo world.

And through the Canadian Pro Rodeo Sports Medicine Clinic, we have a mental health movement that we support, which supports rodeo athletes and rural farmers because mental health in the rural farming community is a huge issue.

The direction we're heading in, I would not have chosen had I been paying attention.

yeah yeah and so when you talk about the physiological the the mind and the body the spirit your mental health so mental health and well-being at the time where you're at this pivotal moment was that important to you is it something that you were working on or has that been something that has now become a really important part of your life

it I became more aware.

I've always had a big focus on mental health and I've done a lot of volunteer work and board governance work around mental health.

Because it's, you know, I don't know a person who hasn't been touched in some way, whether by suicide or mental illness or addiction or what have you.

And so in one way, tangentially or another, that has been part of my lived experience.

And so it's been important to me.

But when it became important to me for me, And how I was showing up in my mental health was really, I think, two times.